good varied diet for firemouths

[garfy]

Actually the emphasis is on high protein diets for them. Beef heart, krill, bloodworms etc. They aren't Mbuna that need a more veggie diet with low proteins.

I'm afraid I'd have to disagree there.I would say occasional frozen foods and bloodworm for them.

 

[Mogurako]

I'm afraid I'd have to disagree there.I would say occasional frozen foods and bloodworm for them.

Agreed, I feed my Gold Mixteco NLS Thera-A every day and blood worms maybe 1-2 times a month. When you're feeding such a high quality food as a staple there's little to no need to supplement their diet with anything else.

The only fish you really need to supplement with a higher protein diet are the fish that are predominantly piscivores. Even then I would stray away from any mammal based protein and only use insect/fish proteins.

 

[Plecolover18]

I feed mine pellets and frozen foods stay away from feeder fish but worms and crickets work great

 

[smooth_cannibal]

well my neighbor gave me a whole bag of hikari cichlid staple so i'm going to use that for a bit. he bought it on accident and didn't take it back.

i will definitely be getting them some nls soon. with two of my cat needing the vet this past week and my betta needs a new tank tonight (dwarf frog problems), i'm broke as hell now for the next couple weeks.

 

[smooth_cannibal]

i know to avoid feeders. i use to feed my oscars crawlers and was planning on doing that once in a while with these guys.

 

[Plecolover18]

That's what I do with mine

 

[Josethatfishguy]

I ocationally let my firemouth have a couple of ghost shrimp

 

[Plecolover18]

That's what I do with mine

 

[smooth_cannibal]

sorry everyone i haven't had time to sit down with my threads in the past few days. thanks for the info.

i went and picked up some nls

 

[garfy]

sorry everyone i haven't had time to sit down with my threads in the past few days. thanks for the info.

i went and picked up some nls

Great decision you won't regret it

 

[Big Tex]

Great decision you won't regret it

x2 I switched from flakes to NLS and frozen treats and I'll never go back